A Confederate General from Big Sur Quotes

“The bees in my stomach are dead and getting used to it.”
― Richard Brautigan, A Confederate General from Big Sur

“This morning I saw a coyote walking through the sagebrush right at the very edge of the ocean ― next stop China. The coyote was acting like he was in New Mexico or Wyoming, except that there were whales passing below. That’s what this country does for you. Come down to Big Sur and let your soul have some room to get outside its marrow.”
― Richard Brautigan, A Confederate General from Big Sur

“Night was coming on in, borrowing the light. It had started out borrowing just a few cents worth of the light, but now it was borrowing thousands of dollars worth of the light every second. The light would soon be gone, the bank closed, the tellers unemployed, the bank president a suicide.”
― Richard Brautigan, A Confederate General from Big Sur

“The flies were teaching an advanced seminar in philosophy as they crawled up the crack of my ass”
― Richard Brautigan, A Confederate General from Big Sur

“Lee Mellon told me that he was born in Meridian, Mississippi, and grew up in Florida, Virginia, and North Carolina, 'Near Asheville,' he said. 'That's Thomas Wolfe country.'

'Yeah,' I said.

Lee Mellon didn't have any Southern accent. 'You don't have much of a Southern accent,' I said.

'That's right, Jesse. I read a lot of Nietzsche, Schopenhauer and Kant when I was a kid,' Lee Mellon said.

I guess in some strange way that was supposed to get rid of a Southern accent. Lee Mellon thought so, anyway. I couldn't argue because I had never tried a Southern accent against the German philosophers.”
― Richard Brautigan, A Confederate General from Big Sur

“One could think of seagulls. It’s really a very simple thing to do… seagulls: past, present and future passing almost like drums to the sky.”
― Richard Brautigan, A Confederate General from Big Sur

“It's all right," she said. "It's all right." That was really a very nice sound. There should be a bird that does that: that sings when you are impotent.”
― Richard Brautigan, A Confederate General from Big Sur

“It's pretty hard to have faith when everybody is trying to lock you up.”
― Richard Brautigan, A Confederate General from Big Sur

“He died on his return to New York. He died on the gangplank, just a few feet away from America. He didn't quite make it. His hat did though. It rolled off his head and down the gang-plank and landed, plop, on America. Poor devil. I heard it was his heart, but the way the Chinese dentist described the business, it could have been his teeth.”
― Richard Brautigan, A Confederate General from Big Sur

“GROWL!--opp/opp/opp/opp/opp/opp/opp/opp!" the alligator said with the pork chop sticking out of his mouth.

Nothing Elizabeth's alligator said profoundly, for meek alligators shall inherit the earth.”
― Richard Brautigan, A Confederate General from Big Sur

“— Чому ти не взяв ліхтаря? — спитала Елейн.
— Не хочу, аби хтось знав, що ми тут.
— Ми не тут, — сказала вона”
― Річард Бротіґан, A Confederate General from Big Sur